Students were master footballers in 1973 (by Jim Carney Tuam Herald)Gaelic Football history was made in 1973 when a Combined Universities team won the high-prestige Railway Cup competition, defeating Connacht in the final (replay) at Athlone by 4-9 to 0-12 . The West was strongly represented, with Joe Waldron of Galway, Tony Regan of Roscommon and Donegal born Martin Carney, later to star for Mayo, in the starting XV with John P. Kean and Tommy O’Malley (Mayo) and John Tobin (Galway in the panel. (Jim Carney Team Herald)